"Szabo said he believed sheriffs are given enormous authority under his interpretation of the Constitution. When pressed about what he would do if a prosecutor declined to charge a doctor he arrested, he said the answer was simple.

"If they choose not to do their duty and uphold the Constitution," Szabo said, "they can be brought up on charges before what's called a citizen's grand jury, which is something that's not that common in the United States. But again, it is something based in common law that's within the purview of the county sheriff."

So, what's a sovereign citizen doing trying to work for "the law"? I thought they hated those guys.

Grand_Moff_Joseph:"Szabo said he believed sheriffs are given enormous authority under his interpretation of the Constitution. When pressed about what he would do if a prosecutor declined to charge a doctor he arrested, he said the answer was simple.

"If they choose not to do their duty and uphold the Constitution," Szabo said, "they can be brought up on charges before what's called a citizen's grand jury, which is something that's not that common in the United States. But again, it is something based in common law that's within the purview of the county sheriff."

So, what's a sovereign citizen doing trying to work for "the law"? I thought they hated those guys.

Standard Republican policy: prove government is bad by breaking it themselves.

Republicans have become the classic example of those morons who resort to threats of violence simply because they are just too rock-sucking stupid to solve their problems like normal, adult human beings.

They're bullies. The only problem is that, since they are so outmatched in every aspect of their lives and lack the intellectual wherewithal to better their situations, everyone is laughing at them. And, what happens when people laugh at bullies?

ecmoRandomNumbers:Bontesla: Why do I feel like Republicans are planning for a civil war?

Because they have the NRA on their side, and think that Democrats don't own guns.

most of the people I know with huge caches of guns are Republicans. Most of the people I know who I'd trust to know which end of gun to point at the bad guys in a crisis? almost to a person, democrats (including the Vietnam vets and Navy SEALs I know personally)

Grand_Moff_Joseph:"Szabo said he believed sheriffs are given enormous authority under his interpretation of the Constitution. When pressed about what he would do if a prosecutor declined to charge a doctor he arrested, he said the answer was simple.

"If they choose not to do their duty and uphold the Constitution," Szabo said, "they can be brought up on charges before what's called a citizen's grand jury, which is something that's not that common in the United States. But again, it is something based in common law that's within the purview of the county sheriff."

So, what's a sovereign citizen doing trying to work for "the law"? I thought they hated those guys.

They tend to only really recognize the county as the highest level of government and the sheriff as the highest legal authority.

"I had a cousin who, she is a registered nurse and the stories she told me about people coming in there and having babies just so they could get more on their food stamps and more on their welfare. It's like no, I don't want to take care of those people."

You just can't compete with anecdotal evidence. She had a cousin! I hope the poor soul is in Heaven.

djkutch:"I had a cousin who, she is a registered nurse and the stories she told me about people coming in there and having babies just so they could get more on their food stamps and more on their welfare. It's like no, I don't want to take care of those people."

You just can't compete with anecdotal evidence. She had a cousin! I hope the poor soul is in Heaven.

djkutch:GAT_00: The root cause seems to be Christianity Evangelicalism and Prosperity Gospel.

Small, but important, edit. There are good Christians out there. See Obama.

I'm not saying that Christianity as a whole, but the root of what these people are doing is out of Christianity. That's the core of all of these problems. And the Prosperity Gospel had to come from somewhere.

GAT_00:djkutch: GAT_00: The root cause seems to be Christianity Evangelicalism and Prosperity Gospel.

Small, but important, edit. There are good Christians out there. See Obama.

I'm not saying that Christianity as a whole, but the root of what these people are doing is out of Christianity. That's the core of all of these problems. And the Prosperity Gospel had to come from somewhere.

Small, but important, edit. There are good Christians out there. See Obama.

I'm not saying that Christianity as a whole, but the root of what these people are doing is out of Christianity. That's the core of all of these problems. And the Prosperity Gospel had to come from somewhere.

It comes from hubris, which is not a Christian virtue.

It pre-dates Christian virtue. Keeping women under you thumb goes way back.

In an interview on Wednesday with local television station WMUR, Szabo said he believed sheriffs were granted special powers under the Constitution. That means, he said, he would be empowered to arrest or even use deadly force against doctors for providing legal abortions for women.

But Szabo may have inflamed the issue further when asked if he would use deadly force to prevent an abortion.

"I would respond specifically by saying that if someone is under threat, a full-grown human being, if they're under threat, what should the sheriff do? Everything in their power to prevent them from being harmed," he said.

I wish it had a verbatim quote of the actual question asked, but it seems pretty clear he would definitely not rule it out.

Ambivalence:That means, he said, he would be empowered to arrest or even use deadly force against doctors for providing legal abortions for women.

English, muthufarker, do you speak it?

Yes. I also know how quotations work.

Sgt Otter:But Szabo may have inflamed the issue further when asked if he would use deadly force to prevent an abortion.

"I would respond specifically by saying that if someone is under threat, a full-grown human being, if they're under threat, what should the sheriff do? Everything in their power to prevent them from being harmed," he said.

That's far from "would kill doctors who perform abortions." No reason to exaggerate on this issue.

starting around 0:30Interviewer: You would do whatever it took to stop that from happening.Idiot: AbsolutelyInterviewer: Deadly force?Idiot: Well, I would hope that it wouldn't come to that as with any situation where someone is in danger but again specifically talking about elective abortions and late term abortions that is an act that needs to be stopped.

"I would respond specifically by saying that if someone is under threat, a full-grown human being, if they're under threat, what should the sheriff do? Everything in their power to prevent them from being harmed," he said.

That's far from "would kill doctors who perform abortions." No reason to exaggerate on this issue.

Don't interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake.

Okay, we have two quotes that are directly opposed to each other. Pray tell, under what circumstances would a "full grown human being" be under threat by a doctor performing an abortion. He specificly said he would "he would be empowered to arrest or even use deadly force against doctors for providing legal abortions for women." Not for threatening women. Not for threatening the lives of "full grown human beings". For performing abortions. The exerpt you quote in no way negates or nullifies the assertion of the exerpt I quoted. They are literally about two completely different subjects.

You know, I always kind of feel guilty painting with a broad brush. I'm from a conservative family and I have friends of the Tea Party variety who are by and large good decent people. But god damn are some of these people warped in the head.

impaler:That's far from "would kill doctors who perform abortions." No reason to exaggerate on this issue.

Interviewer: Deadly force?Idiot:Well, I would hope that it wouldn't come to that as with any situation where someone is in danger but again specifically talking about elective abortions and late term abortions that is an act that needs to be stopped.

That means it could come to that. He just hopes it won't. There is no rational way to read that other than yes, I would kill a doctor to stop an elective abortion if I had to. That is exactly what he is saying. Don't whitewash it. He really is saying that.